Elsewhere, he said (10/33): “Al-Tabarani transmitted it in al-Awsat from his shaykh Muqaddam ibn Dawud, who is weak. Ibn Daqiq al-‘Id, however, said that he regarded him as trustworthy; the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.”

918 — “There is no sin more deserving of Allah Most High hastening punishment for its perpetrator in this world—along with what He stores up for him in the Hereafter—than transgression and severing ties of kinship.”

It was transmitted by Ibn al-Mubarak in al-Zuhd (724), al-Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad (p. 12), Abu Dawud (2/301–302), al-Tirmidhi (1/83), Ibn Majah (2/552), Ibn Hibban (2039), al-Hakim (2/356 and 4/162–163), al-Baghawi in Hadith Ibn al-Ja‘d (7/70/1), and Ahmad (5/36, 38), through ‘Uyaynah ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Jawshan al-Ghatafani, who said: My father narrated to us from Abu Bakrah, tracing it back to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Al-Tirmidhi said: “A good, authentic hadith.” Al-Hakim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic.”

I say: It is as they both said, for all the narrators in its chain of transmission are trustworthy. The hadith has also been narrated with the additional wording: “There is no sin more deserving of Allah hastening punishment for its perpetrator—along with what He stores up for him in the Hereafter—than severing ties of kinship, treachery, and lying. Indeed, among righteous deeds, the one whose reward comes most swiftly is maintaining ties of kinship: a household may be poor, yet their wealth increases and their number grows when they maintain their kinship ties.”

In al-Majma‘ (8/152), he said: “Al-Tabarani transmitted it from his shaykh, ‘Abd Allah ibn Musa ibn Abi ‘Uthman al-Antaki, whom I do not know; the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.”

I say: Ibn Hibban also transmitted its latter half (2038) with the wording: